It didn't felt like reading, it felt like living. Blissfully written, something absolutely necessary was conveyed here.It didn't felt like reading, it felt like living. Blissfully written, something absolutely necessary was conveyed here....more
“If action were not preceded by attention, it would not be action, but movement of the sleeping body” One can act in a dream and yet actually kill. Murd“If action were not preceded by attention, it would not be action, but movement of the sleeping body” One can act in a dream and yet actually kill. Murder is an essentially imaginary act. "The root of evil is daydreaming" Wars, oppressions, human relations are filled with those acts in which, subject to the imagination, one does not believe in the reality of the other. The cure: Attention. But: "There is something in our soul which repels true attention much more violently than the flesh repels fatigue."...more
Maritain was young and way too confident, it is especially obvious in the first chapters where non-western philosophy is thrown away like nothing.
I unMaritain was young and way too confident, it is especially obvious in the first chapters where non-western philosophy is thrown away like nothing.
I understand that it is an introduction and that it can't develop too much about why it is right and others are mistaken but it then shouldn't present itself as certain as it does about its subjects and supposed truths.
Reading this feels like philosophy almost already ended with Aristotle and Aquinas simply adjusted a few things and after that, every other philosophy was simply wrong because Thomism has supposedly the perfect "middle-ground" of all of them.
There is a lot to be learned from Thomism but even with sympathy to it, I can't accept it as the definitive philosophy (or "perennis philosophia" as he puts it). This kind of end-of-thought statement seems itself anti-philosophical, by wanting to be eternal, it is rejecting itself as philosophy....more
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